About

Gender

Male


Location

Cincinnati, OH


About Me:

I'm a college Student looking to build things on a Budget.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I've always enjoyed things that fly and lately I've been fixated on Multi-Copters


Hometown:

Cincinnati


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SonicPet07 replied to SonicPet07's discussion Preferred Quad RC Controller?
"OK One last thing before I buy The Futaba 7C or keep looking. Is there a physical Difference between Mode 1/2 or Airplane/Heli specific controllers?  Or more preferably is it a software or setup difference?  I don't know if its common but I'd like…"
Jan 12, 2012
SonicPet07 replied to SonicPet07's discussion Preferred Quad RC Controller?
"Question!  Is there any difference between the Radios that say Airplane Radio System vs Heli?"
Jan 8, 2012
SonicPet07 posted a discussion
Managed to build my Quad and do basic testing with only a 2 Channel Controller that's 25 years old. I'm looking to upgrade. Since I'm using the Ardupilot Mega board I need 6 or 7 Channels. I'm looking for suggestions in 2 price ranges.1)  Bang for…
Jan 6, 2012
SonicPet07 posted a discussion
Hello all,I'm putting together a small little project where I'm using the orientation of my phone to spin up the various motors on my quad. The problem is I have no experience using the servo library or writing my own code to drive the ESC's.  Any…
Dec 11, 2011
SonicPet07 posted a discussion
Ok for the past few weeks I've been trying to get my Quadcopter working.  However I've been having issues getting my configuration and setup working... Mainly I'm getting stuck at this point unless I install the SIM firmware.As  you can see it seems…
Nov 20, 2011
SonicPet07 commented on Farooq Niaz's blog post Flying ArduCopter with a Joystick
"On the fact that it may be a Windows Lag. I wonder if there is a process or something in the background thats slowing it. That's a size-able slow down and it doesn't seem like it should be that slow just because of Windows."
Nov 19, 2011
SonicPet07 commented on Farooq Niaz's blog post Flying ArduCopter with a Joystick
"Did you do all the setup with the joystick or RC like they tell you too?  Can you do it somehow without the RC? I'm trying to make mine use the Joystick for control, and/or autonomous in general but I can't get past the setup."
Nov 19, 2011
SonicPet07 posted a discussion
Ok I was going through testing the soldering I did on my ardupilot mega board... I was testing the resistence between adjacent pins to see if there was a short. When doing so I got good results and everything checked out.  That is until I got to the…
Oct 29, 2011
SonicPet07 posted a discussion
Hello all,So I'm building my first Quadcopter for a school project and I've decided to base it off the arduCopter linked to at the top of this site.  This project is for a design course so its supposed to be a prototype and therefore doesn't have to…
Oct 18, 2011